The Light of the World — Leonard Ravenhill

Accounting for Every Thought, Word, and Deed

Reverse, so be it Lord. Thy throne shall never like earth's proud empires pass away. Thy kingdom stands and grows forever till all thy creatures own thy sway. We bless you Father for the ultimate. We've read the last chapter of the book Lord, and it doesn't disturb us in one sense.

In one sense it does, to feel that we have to account for every moment we've lived, every word we've said, every thought we've ever thought, every action we've ever committed is going to be brought out one day in the final audit before the eyes of teeming billions of people.

Then shall we know as we're known. But Lord we pray that you'll teach us to live on earth as it is in heaven, with a heavenly heart on earth. We thank you this is possible. You can put out of us all the world and all that aspires to the world, and give us a heart in every thought renewed and full of love divine, perfect and right and pure and good a copy Lord of thine.

We want Lord that this blessed message shall go to the ends of the earth. We pray Lord as we come to your word tonight we would say in the words of scripture, Lord open our eyes that we may behold wondrous things out of thy law, and we'll give you praise in Jesus name.

Thank you, be seated. We've got musical chairs tonight you know. All right, John chapter 9. And as Jesus passed by he saw a man that was blind from his birth, and the disciples asked him saying master who did sin this man or his parents he was born blind.

Jesus as the Light of the World

Jesus answered neither hath this man sin nor his parents that the works of God should be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day the night cometh when no man can work.

Now you've got to keep that in context with the next verse. The night cometh as long as I'm in the world I am the light of the world. As long as I am in the world I am the light of the world. You know that phrase virtually constitutes the very last utterance that Jesus made publicly.

It's true he said finally in John 17 when I finished the work which thou finished on earth the work which thou gave us me to do the next work is when he was lifted up from the earth. But here Jesus virtually utters I say what what is can be constituted the last public statement that he made.

It's a very interesting simple thing isn't it. Verse 2 the disciples asked him who did sin this man or his parents that he was born blind. You know that fragrant that statement is only once stated and it's here it's not repeated in the whole word of God.

What would see we say as a congenital eye problem born with it from the beginning of his life. He had no sight. And so a miracle happened. Jesus did something very beautifully spit on the ground. Wouldn't that be offensive to us?

We'd rather die. We'd rather be blind. Look what it says you look very incredulous you must have another version. Verse 6 when he had thus spoken he spat on the ground and made clear the spittle. Good night.

That's not very hygienic. Don't you think people would object to that? It's just about as offensive as saying you have to be washed in the blood of the Lamb. They don't want the blood of the Lamb. They want Christ as a teacher.

Christ and a very wonderful man. But they don't want anything to do with the atoning work of Jesus. And Jesus takes this simple thing it doesn't go through some sign or some particular utterance. He just spat on the ground and maybe only covered his finger in it and put it on the eyes of the man.

And he anointed the eyes of the blind man and he said go and wash in the pool of Siloam. Now here's a problem. This causes a lot of controversy. Skip down to verse 36. 12 pardon me I'm sorry. 12 the people asked him and said where is he?

He said I know not. That's concerning Jesus. And they brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. And it was the Sabbath day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. And again the Pharisees also asked him how he'd received his sight.

He said unto them he put clay on my eyes I washed and do see. Now look what it says in this verse. In verse 16 some said. A bit later in the verse others said. But in verse 17 it says he said. Now who do you take notice of?

Whenever there's anything that God is doing some said this others said that. What did he say? Come on now this man had been blind from his birth. Can you imagine his eyes are open. Everybody in the village is there.

His uncle comes up to him and says hey Bill I'm your uncle Jim you've never seen me before. You can see. This is your Aunt Mary and Mary says hey you can see. Do you have to tell a man that's been blind he can see?

Do you have to tell a man who's saved that he is saved? You have to say to him well you just prayed that little simple prayer and said God be merciful to me a sinner. And you've promised to tithe and we'll take in the church.

You're saved you're saved forget it. I'm terribly disturbed about this business of folk getting saved. They walk up to the front and they say a prayer. And in five minutes they've gone. No birth ever takes place like that.

I can't believe a person with ten years of guilt never mind 20 or 30 in a conscience that's tearing them up. Just goes up to the front and says something and sheds a future. Somebody said recently a lot of people came forward in church Sunday.

A lot of them were broken they cried. How do you know they were broken? Doesn't mean because they weep they're broken. They may have hearts as hard as stone. They were emotionally disturbed. There's no birth that's easy.

The Struggle of the New Birth

And if people are going to be born again of the Spirit of God at a time of wrestling. Sometimes they're broken with their unworthiness. Remember the man that wrote this fabulous thing. I think it's one of the greatest that Charles Wesley wrote and he wrote over 3 ,000.

And can it be that I should gain? He's a scholar. He's a man of impeccable morality. He's one of the richest most powerful men in the nation in the church. And yet one day he says one day my chains fell off.

This guy had no criminal record. He hadn't been crippled with smoking or drinking or lust. He was a model man. And yet he says there came a moment. Along my imprisoned spirit lay fast bound in sin and nature's night.

Thine eye diffused a quickening ray. I woke the dungeon flame with light. My chains fell off. Do you think he needed somebody to tell him that? I can see that man going out. He's overcome with joy. He's overcome with ecstasy.

His mother, I just must remember his mother, who happened to be Mrs. Wesley. So this is Charles Wesley. And she read a book. I've got a title here for you. Somebody asked me about it. It's a book called The Life of God in the Soul of Man.

It's not a big book. And I'll tell you where you can get it. Sprinkle. You know some people get baptized and get sprinkled. This is Sprinkle. Sprinkle Publications. Post Office Box 1094. Harrisonburg, Virginia 22809.

Did you get that? What? Repeat it. I'll give you this after this. Sprinkle. Don't buy me it for Christmas. I've already got a copy. Sprinkle Publications. You should sprinkle it when you get it. It's the greatest thing ever written on the new birth.

And remember, Mrs. Wesley read this. Boy, you talk about the mother of the Salvation Army. She was super. John Wesley's wife, she must have been super with 17 kids anyhow. Jonathan Edwards' mother had 17, I think.

Jonathan Edwards' wife, one of the most spiritual women that ever walked America, had 12 children. It's no sign you're spiritual because you're a brood, or that you're unspiritual if you've none. The right number is three, but anyhow.

Sprinkle Publications. PO Box 1094. Harrisonburg, Virginia 22809. And the book is The Life of God in the Soul of Man. Mrs. Wesley read it and it stirred her heart. So she says to Charles, you've got to read this, and John, you've got to read this.

So Charles was going in the University of Oxford. I think it's called Jesus College. They have those low windowsills, and here's a fellow sitting there with a severe cross squint eye, one eye's turned in the corner.

They blessed him on the English stage and called him Mr. Squintum. Well, Mrs. Wesley gave it to Charles. Charles gave it to George Whitefield. On the cover of the book it says, quoting him, it says, I never knew what true religion was until I read this book.

I remember that set this man on fire. His spirit had been in prison. If you knew a cure for cancer, supposing you had cancer lying in hospital and suddenly you woke up miraculously healed, do you think you'd be embarrassed to talk about it?

Do you think you'd stay in bed? Boy, you'd jump out in your nightshirt or whatever you were in and go around saying, I'm healed, I'm healed, I'm healed. We had a man in England like that, the wickedest man in the British Empire.

They shifted him home on a boat from India, and then in the hospital they said, don't talk to him, he's mad. He'd get up and blaze in the night, storm and rage. Somebody came in one night and gave him a day, a little woman came in and gave him a scripture.

Oh no, no, no, no, no. He said, I'm the most wicked man in the British army. I've had delirium tremens three times. They've shipped me home in this home in a straight jacket from India, and I'm going to be thrown out of the army.

I'm the biggest derelict, drunkard, liar. I have the worst vocabulary of cursing in the whole world. And she said, well, Jesus came to somebody like you. Me? Yeah, all you have to do is, and she said, here's his letter.

And she read to him, he must be born again. Well, what do I do? Say from your heart tonight, I renounce all sin and uncleanness and wickedness, and I take you Lord Jesus as my Savior and my Lord. So he did that.

And she left him a New Testament. He woke up in the morning and reached for it. He woke up with all the joy bells of heaven had all been shifted into his heart. Boy, he was rejoicing with joy unspeakable.

And he reached for the New Testament. He read it. Oh, mercy. What did he read? The prayer of faith shall save the sick. So he said, well, Lord, I said last night, save me, you save me. Heal me, Lord, heal me.

And the nurse was going past the bed and he says, nurse, nurse, I brought my trousers. No, no, no, you, where are you going? I'm going home. Why? I've been healed. Why? Just now. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

You had a vision or something. They brought the nurse. They brought the doctor. They brought half the staff of the hospital. I talked with this man. In fact, I slept with him in a big old bed. He dug me in the ribs at two in the morning.

He says, hey, little lamb. I said, yes. He said, let's have a glory march. I said, it's two o 'clock. It doesn't matter. I said, the people next door. He said, doesn't matter. They can come and join if they want.

He had a night shirt, you know, like these ladies wear these ruffles around the neck from there, right? Dragging on the floor. He had one of those when he was in bed in the army. I said, what if they didn't bring your trousers?

He said, I'd have walked home in my night shirt all through the city of Perth. He said, man, don't you realize I was born again delivered from sin, from guilt, from condemnation. I done enough sin to damn a hundred men and he saved me like that.

I had all these chronic pains and as quickly as that he healed me. What can I do? I love that man in meetings. I want to show him outside. I mean, you're going to show in a store like a Sears Roebuck, you get the blessing, you get, you know, baptism of joy.

He'd stand in the shop and say, hey, all you folks, keep it till we get to church. No, no, no, no. He said, listen, everybody. I've got the blood red, snow white, sky blue experience. I'm as happy as a lark and as free as an eagle and it's sunshine and smiles and strawberries and cream.

And I never do any, never get worried when people do that. They've got the right to point to their own heads if they want. If they're a bit weak, have compassion on them. Why, why worry if they point at their, it's when they point at your head you're in trouble.

Do you know what? We don't have enough joy in the Lord. We don't have enough ecstasy. If you were carrying a hundred pounds, I think my dear wife read this to me today. You know, Bunyan, Bunyan's Pilgrim said, I came to a place that was somewhat ascending.

There was a wall on the right and a wall on the left and straight in front of me was a cross. When I beheld the cross, it said, the burden loose from off my shoulders, fell from off my back, rolled into an empty sepulchre.

And I saw it no more and I gave three leaps for joy. And he was a Baptist. What would the Pentecostals have done? Huh? He'd lost his burden. He'd lost his guilt. He'd lost his condemnation. He'd lost his darkness and got light.

He'd lost his bondage and got freedom. He's got his anxiety and got joy. It's not contagious enough. There should be something about this every day of radiance, the fact that we're born again of the Spirit of God.

And I remind you again, I'm going to heaven. You go where you'll go to hell if you want. But I'm going to heaven and I'm not going for the weekend. And if you're going to hell, you're not going for the weekend.

The same word that talks about eternal life is the same for eternal death. So this man causes a problem. Everybody does if you're born again. We say Jesus, oh if Jesus came, he's the Prince of Peace. Wouldn't it be wonderful if Jesus comes, he comes to bring a sword.

It divides people. It divides children from their parents. It divides people in ministries. You suddenly wake up to where you are and who you are and where you're going and suddenly like that, you realize that Jesus Christ is all he is and he's all I need or he's nothing at all.

Either he was the most disillusioned man or a liar or else he's the most fabulous message in the world. And he has the most fabulous message in the world. Because he just said to them here, in verse 4 of this chapter 9, he says, I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day, the night cometh.

They didn't know how near that night was. What did he say? I am the light of the world, ye are the light of the world. I am the light of the world. As long as I'm in the world, I am the light of the world.

Scripture as the Lamp for the Path

You know, there's a wonderful verse. One of the first we learned in England as children was that word of the psalmist. Thy word is a what? A what? And then what? And the light unto my path. You know, one of the amazing thing that we hardly ever quote is this.

Oh, let me go back a minute. It's no good having a lamp if there isn't a light in it. We used to have a say-so meeting in our church on a Saturday night. Let there be deemed of the Lord say-so. I'll give you a week's notice one of these times and say next week we're going to have a say-so meeting.

Say what God has meant to you in the last week in a special way, on the last month. We had an old man called Kerfoot used to come. He was a saint. He walked very slowly, he talked very slowly. But his eyes always sparkled and he had a radiance.

And when he shook hands, you know you shake hands with someone it's like a feather. More like the tail of a wet fish sometimes. I think a handshake denotes character. I like somebody to get hold of my hand and give it a grip.

Don't try too hard Spencer because my hands a bit weak right now. But I still like somebody to grip. And that dear old man kept a crossing where the train came down from the coal mine. It came about three times a day and he went and shut the gate, or opened the gate.

And he would wave a flag in the daytime and a red light at night. Well it wasn't him but it was somewhere else in England where a train was coming and the fellow that should wave the light was asleep.

And at the last moment he woke up just as a horse and carriage came down and it got in the pathway of the train and it was smashed to bits. Well the man desperate and was upset of course. When he got into the police car they said did you carry a lamp that night?

He said yes I did. Did you swing it in front of the carriage? And they did that actually just about five minutes before, a few minutes before the train came crashing through. And he said yes. Well the judge said you're exonerated.

And the man trembled and shook and he went white. And going out somebody said to him, Jack did you really wave your lamp in front of that carriage that was coming? Yes, he said I did. Well then why you should have travelled?

The judge asked you did you wave your lamp? You answered truthfully yes. Well what's wrong with you? He said supposing he asked me if I had a light in it. You know with millions of people in America swinging a lamp of an empty profession they have the framework but they haven't the light.

The Parable of the Ten Virgins

What about the virgins? There weren't five virgins and five harlots who were all virgins. And five of them they said our lamps are gone out it says in the revised version. In the other version it says our lamps are going out.

They had light but they hadn't enough light. You know this really shakes me up. How many millions of people are sitting in pews in America? They've come up to the front. There's something got to be done about it.

The little church I went to, if you came to the altar a man would come and sit, kneel at the side of a man, a woman at the side of a man. It took you about an hour to get through before you're ever saved.

They show you every scripture, where you were lost, where you were condemned, where you could be washed, where you could be filled with the Spirit, how you could walk in the Spirit. You ask people going out who've been to death, what happened?

Oh I don't know I felt better I really cried. So what? People cry at movies as well. The new birth is a miracle. It's coming out of darkness into light. Out of darkness into light. We sing a hymn sometime out of my bondage sorrow and night.

Jesus out of my sickness into thy health, out of my poverty into thy wealth, out of my sin and into thyself. People are not saved just because they make a confession. Oh I believe in the virgin birth, so does the devil he witnessed it.

I believe in the physical resurrection from the dead, so did the devil he was scared of it. But Jesus says here, I am the light of the world. You know I hear people say to me, oh I'm so glad I like to meet an Englishman.

The Word of God, Liberty, and Spiritual Light

Of course you know your forebears, there weren't four bears nor three bears. They were just, my forebears didn't come here. But those Englishmen came to America because they were seeking God, they did not.

They came to America because they found God. They came to bring the light and they brought it. What did they bring? They brought this word. What else did they bring? They brought their wives and they colonized.

And when they set up their little colonies, the Indians came creeping up to see what was happening. And in one instance, one of the chiefs had already learned some English from traders. And when they saw these people land, they were scared stiff that they'd murder the Indians.

That they'd build a kind of a log place and they'd have no windows. And these Indians crept up on their tummies or however they come, Spencer will tell you, they creep up through the trees quietly. What were they doing?

This Englishman was reading the word of God. They saw the man with a book, they hadn't seen a book. What was he reading? Well he was reading the Sermon on the Mount. And they listened and said, this is what they teach.

Blessed are the merciful, blessed are the pure in heart. This is the greatest thing ever. You know what, the trouble with us is that familiarity breeds contempt. The word doesn't shake us and move us as it should.

But going back, those men brought what? They hazarded their lives on what? The Mayflower and the Speedwell. I was on the Queen Mary a number of times and the Queen Elizabeth and the United States, that big boat.

And one night a man said to me, this is about the biggest boat in the world. I said, is it? He said, it's the biggest ship ever. It has fifteen hundred passengers and five hundred staff. Two thousand people, fancy making scrambled eggs for that crowd every morning.

He said, isn't it wonderful? It's the biggest boat ever. I said, no it isn't. He said, what's the biggest boat that ever sailed? I said, the Mayflower. He said, how do you make that? I said, everybody in America, their grandfather sailed on it.

Grandfather on the Mayflower or the Speedwell. They brought the word of God. They brought a lamp, it had a light. Some men crossed the South Atlantic. They were not pilgrims, they were priests. What did they bring?

They brought the lamp without any light. They brought the Bible, the priests brought the Bible in a foreign language that people couldn't read. And that book has been locked up there in South America until fairly recently.

Catholics were forbidden even to read the word of God. Which is the most progressive nation in the world? We're not the most holy, I'm sure, but in America. You see, wherever this book goes, liberty goes.

Slavery was abolished in England before America started going. Who was it abolished by? John Wesley? Wilberforce? A deformed man, very enormous, long arms, long legs, a short body. And people laughed at him when he came into the Houses of Commons.

But he would jump on the speaker's table and speak with such passion that even the men who had ridiculed him would weep as he described the conditions of slavery. He fought slavery, John Newton fought slavery, Charles Wesley fought slavery.

There's a book called England Before and After Wesley. And a light unto my path. You know, I'm afraid what we're doing with the altar, you may disagree, and that's your privilege. I think what we're doing is, in Protestant churches, the altar has become a confessional.

The Altar Call and the Reality of Conversion

People come forward and confess and off they go. There's no miracle of the new birth. No miracle of the new birth. I say to the pastors that come to me now, they talk about their degrees, whatever they have.

I say, look, a man that doesn't have the anointing of God, that's trying to preach the Word of God, I say to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Wesley could preach. Charles Wesley could preach as much as his brother, though he wrote more hymns.

Nobody preached, of course, like George Whitefield. And yet these men were all established scholars. They were all graduates of Oxford University. They knew the Word of God, the new church history. But Wesley says, there came a moment when I passed from death unto life.

In his case, in John Wesley's, it was about a quarter to nine. His exact words of these, I've memorized them, I've said them hundreds of times, maybe in street meetings. He said it was about a quarter to nine, on the 24th of May, 1738, that I felt my heart strangely warmed, and I believed that I, even I, was reconciled to God.

A Catholic theologian said that all that happened to him was he had a fever. Well, I hope somebody will catch fever tonight. Completely revolutionized his life. Think of the peril of a man who's blind.

He's walking along and there's a precipice he can fall down a hundred or five hundred feet, and he moves towards it, and he's no idea it's there. The whole world is blind outside of Jesus Christ. It's going to fall over a precipice into an eternal hell.

I've read about that this week, and I can hardly sleep at night. Many of our church members, they're going to mix up there. All liars are going to have their part in hell. A blind man walks, and there's a precipice, and he goes over.

A blind man walks, and he crunches something under his feet, and he thought, oh, that's nothing. It's a piece of glass. It happened to be a ring of, what do you call it, a necklace of diamonds that dopped off some lady's neck, but he treads on it.

It's no sense of value. And you know, people pass this word. They read any blessed thing today. Junk. A lot of these Christian junk stories, too. But there's nothing that will inspire us and inflame us and satisfy us and provoke us.

The Bible is a wonderful way of provoking me and calming me. It excites me, and it calms me down. I see the view of the world, but I see it from the eternal standpoint, not as men see. One man said he saw men as trees walking around.

You know, it's one thing to have this word. It's another thing for the word to be quickened to us. Reader's Digest gave us a fantastic story three or four years ago. A man was somewhere in Hong Kong, I think, and there was a rack, and there were all kinds of, you know, these doodles that women wear, all this junk, but anyhow.

Ropes of pearls, and what have you got? And he saw these little green oblong beads. He said to the man, what do you want for that? Oh, he said, I don't know. I've never had one like this. I'll give you twenty dollars for it.

Right. The man brought it home, gave it to his little girl to play with, and she played with it and did all kinds of things and broke it. Oh, daddy, fix it, fix it. I can't. He took it to a jeweler's, and he said, could you fix this for me?

I bought it in Hong Kong. He said, yes. I can have it done in two or three days. So the man went back for it. He said, did you re-thread my bead? He said, yes. How much did he get for it? He said twenty dollars.

Would you take a thousand for it? A thousand? Well, what about five thousand? Are you crazy? Five thousand dollars, and I gave twenty for it? Just some little green bits of stone? So he said, he brought a magnifying glass.

What was it? It was a love letter from Napoleon to Josephine, the only one in the world. And he'd engraved on every one of those little beads a word of his love, my darling Josephine. So he goes on. He said, this is the most unique necklace in the world.

You bought it for twenty dollars? It may bring you a million, may bring you more than that. Then, of course, the man got awfully excited about it. He said, you know, my little girl was playing with it on the floor.

She even stubbed on it and sank it in the rug at one time, and then she smashed it. She broke the chain. Yes, I'll take any money you give me. And it became a museum piece, with all its vast traveling from one country to another, handled by this person, handled by that.

Well, isn't this book more precious than any Josephine necklace? And yet do we treasure it? Is it true to say, as a poet said, this is a golden casket where gems of truth are stored? It is the heaven-drawn picture of Christ, the Living Word.

And yet we so lightly esteem it. Some of our neighbors are walking very near to the precipice. Matthew says, if that light in you becomes darkness, how great is that darkness. How many people have gone backwards in their Christian experience, gone into twilight zone, as it were, spiritually?

Something has to be done. We need to pray desperately about the situation. There are millions of people absolutely lost without God and without hope. They sing in the choir. They teach Sunday school classes.

They have a knowledge of the Word of God. They have no knowledge of the Living Christ of God. This Word isn't sweeter than the honey and the honeycomb. And if you're not really born again, this book is like about as refreshing as a mouthful of sand.

But once it begins to burn, and you see, it's what, I forget, an old missionary said, I don't get much mail. I read love letters from Jesus every day. I have a bound volume of love letters from him. Isn't that a wonderful way of looking at the Word of God?

That God has unveiled his heart of love toward us. Oh, you'll cause some trouble if you're truly born again of the Spirit of God. I don't think there's any question about that at all. What does he say then?

The Lamb as the Light in Revelation

I am the light of the world. Let's look at Revelation 21 and verse 25 for a minute here. And verse 22, I saw no temple therein. Look what he sees. In verse 22, there's no temple. In verse 23, there's no need of sun.

There's no need of the moon. I saw no temple for the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb are the light of it, are the temple of it. And then at the end of verse 23, for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

Isn't that fabulous? Step back to chapter 5 for a minute here in Revelation. Revelation 5 and verse 6, I beheld and lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb.

Isn't that gorgeous? In the 21st chapter he read, the Lamb is the light. It says here, in the midst of the temple, and the elders are in the midst of the temple, and the Lamb is in the midst of the elders.

I'm glad it says that. Don't you think, isn't it rather strange the Roman Catholics don't say that in the midst of the temple the Virgin Mary is there? Or the Jews don't say in the midst of the temple Moses is there?

See, the Lamb, the Lamb, the Lamb. If you read it carefully you'll discover at least 20, I think 29 times altogether John talks about the Lamb. Either in his gospel, as we call it, or in his epistles.

You know, some people say, he wasn't very learned men, this man John. I think he's pretty smart. After all, he wrote a gospel. He wrote one epistle, two epistles, three epistles, that's four books. And then, for being a dull man, he did pretty good writing Revelation, don't you think?

Which still baffles all the wise men. You know, we don't explore this book as we ought to. You may not like it, but I'm convinced for myself I'm poor and I should be rich. I'm not exploring the possibilities of grace.

I'm an heir of God, a joint heir. Not when I get a shuffle off this mortal coil as Shakespeare says. We sing sometimes the hill of Zion yields a thousand sacred sweets before we reach the heavenly fields of ought the golden sea.

Well, tell me, come on, honestly, how much richer are you tonight than you were last Friday night? How much have you explored of the possibilities of grace? How much further deep and deep down have your roots gone in the joy of the Lord, in the power of the Lord, in the revelation of the Lord?

The Lamb is in the midst of the throne. The Lamb is the light. Why does it say he's more brilliant than the noonday sun? It doesn't say that. It says there's no need of sun. Remember on the Damascus road when the Lord appeared to Saul, the man that was going to liquidate the church, and Jesus stepped in his way and he was brighter than the noonday sun?

Have you seen the sun when it's splendidly here in, well we do have nice skies, you can't see, you can't see the sun in California. But now you can go out in the daytime and you see the blazing sun, or at night it's singing a big vast ball.

How many worlds can you put in? 15 ,000 worlds into the sun it's so large. But here's Jesus, brighter than the noonday sun. How did he come in the mount of transfiguration, glistening with majesty? You know I kind of wish he'd done that when he came out of the tomb.

I wish he'd come radiant till people fell at his feet as dead, walking through the synagogue and everybody fell dead or fell back gasping. Or walk down main street in Jerusalem and everybody said what is this?

It's as though the sun is walking. But it's going to be greater than that. When we see him he's going to be brighter than 10 ,000 sunrises. And the lamb is in the midst of the throne. You know I was thinking this morning again of Moses when he looked back and saw the bodies washing up when they crossed the Red Sea.

He wrote that 15th chapter, where is it? Genesis or Exodus, which is the song of the Moses. Genesis. Exodus, sorry. I'm a bit late with my wheelbarrow. What does it say? He sang the Lord of triumph gloriously, the horse and his rider he cast into sea.